Bismarck, N.D. (AP) More than 97,000 people voted in North Dakota prior to election day.
Secretary of State Al Jaeger says 97,140 ballots were cast before the election, that's 38 percent of the 255,000 voters that participated in the November 4th election.
Jaeger says 67,636 people voted by mail or turned in absentee ballots, and 29,504 people voted early in North Dakota's most populous counties.